· Private foundation
4k Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rebuilt Parish Inc | $200,000 |
| Church of the Nativity | $33,000 |
| Young Onset Parkinson's Network | $25,000 |
| Archdiocese of Baltimore | $15,000 |
| United Way of Greater High Point | $10,000 |
| Believe Big | $10,000 |
| Crohn's and Colitis Foundation | $10,000 |
| Carolina Core Academy | $6,000 |
| FRANCISCAN CENTER OF BALTIMORE | $3,364 |
| COVER THE CITY PROJECT | $3,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND | $2,050 |
| FOCUS (FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS) | $1,200 |
| EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA | $250 |
| LEWIS MUSEUM | $150 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of 4k Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RPREBUILT PARISH INC2× · 2022–2024 · $452k · revenue ×16
- IWINNOVATION WORKS INC4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +279%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +18%
- CCCatholic Community Foundationone grant, 2022 · $25k
- VEVIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.
Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.
Reboot Rx is a nonprofit that expands access to affordable cancer treatments by repurposing generic drugs.
To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.
National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.
Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.
Inspire volunteerism and connect motivated people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. our programs connect the right people with the right organizations.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next One Up Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cover the City Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 42% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds REBUILT PARISH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ONSET PARKINSONS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Believe Big Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVER THE CITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GENEROSITY-GLOBAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Motor Racing Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARM CITY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 4k Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.